Jan. 7, 2020
Rule Comments, Real Main Street investors (including us working people invested in companies through our retirement savings) oppose making it harder for all Main Street investors to file shareholder proposals. Shareholder proposals are part of a democratic process that holds corporate CEOs (today's robber barons) accountable. Unaccountable CEOs wield disproportionate power in our society, blocking attempts at creating policies and regulations and laws that would address income inequality in America by reforming corporate CEO pay, that would respect human rights and freedoms and that would protect the environment that gives and sustains all of our lives. I care about corporate responsibility, proof that corporations are good citizens, in all ways that corporations relate to the rest of us: through labor standards, executive compensation, human rights and the environment. I DO NOT want rules tilted any further in favor of corporate CEOs. Rules so tilted will lead us only deeper in and further out into the corporate state and the loss of our civil rights and freedoms so that corporate actors can hold all the power in our society. NO rule changes that make it easier for corporations to make it harder for us Main Street investors to file shareholder proposals! NO to this slippery slope! Amanda McNeill [redacted]